Irony and Humor as Feminist Narrative Strategies: Arabian Gulf Women's Literature in Perspective
This article examines how, in her first novel entitled al-Shams madhbuha wa-l-layl mahbus (1997, The Sun is Slaughtered and the Night is Confined), the contemporary Kuwaiti woman writer, Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Salim (b. 1949), employs irony and humor as narrative strategies through which the absurdity...
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| Main Author: | Tijani, Olatunbosun (author) |
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| Format: | article |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8397 |
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